Improvement in flag-halyards



" UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ALBERT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMFROVEMENT IN FLAG-HALYARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 119,292, dated September 26, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALBERT, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Flag-Halyard; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved manner of securin g flag-halyards; and it consists in attaching them to a weight or traveler fitted on a rod or guide attached to the royal back-stays of aship or other convenient place, or to the flagstafl' near its base, so that it can rise and fall as the halyards vary in length according to their condition of dryness, thereby always keeping them taut but not overstraining them, as they will be if made fast when becoming very dry and then becoming wet.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the mast of a ship and some of the rigging thereof, showing the application of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a section of a part thereof enlarged. Fig. 3 is an elevation of an ordinary flag-.stafi", showing the application to it. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and6 represent guides, which may.

be used at somedistance above the lower fastening for the halyards to keep them from flopping about in the wind.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondreceive the traveler, which has a hole through it for the purpose, and holds it. Said traveler has a hook or cleat, F, attached to it for convenience in making the halyards fast to it, and it may have curved bars G for acting against the side of the staff, as shown, to steady it and prevent turning. H and I represent guides or fair-leaders, which may be placed on the staff or back-stays above the traveler, to prevent the halyards from being violently carried away by the wind and jerking up the weight. In case the one, I, is used, only one of the cords will be passed through it. The traveler will have such weight as to keep the halyards taut, or nearly so, under the action of the strongest wind they will naturaliy be subjected to, but will rise and fall on the rod 0 as the halyards change in length on account of their varying conditions of dryness and wetness.

It will be seen that this plan will not injure the halyards, while it will always keep them taut eler, B, adapted for making the said halyards fast to it, and capable of rising and falling as the halyards change in length, all substantially as specified.

WM. ALBERT.

Witnesses GEORGE W. MABEE,

T. B. MOSHER. (98) 

